I saw this not all that long ago, outside Channel 4 headquarters and thought it looked amazing. It was done by Stephanie Imbeau, a fine art graduate at Newcastle University and it is called "Shelter". She is the fourth artist to win the competition to put her own mark on the 'Big 4'. Following the likes of Turner Prize nominee Mark Titchner, she designed the sculpture with over 1,000 umbrellas to cover the standard Channel Four scaffolding. She got most of the umbrellas from London Transports Lost and Found and she explained, "Using broken umbrellas can also be seen as the re-telling of a story, the giving of second life." She is from the USA and says she sees umbrellas as a "visual representation of London and its many inhabitants." I can see why, considering our weather!
Nick Knight's Heart, 2007.
El Anatsui's attempt in 2008, with newspapers, encouraging us to contemplate the news we receive daily in a different way...
But I love the random nature of the project and how aesthetically pleasing hundreds of overlapping umbrellas can turn out to be. Such as in the adverts, it is constructed out of separate parts and so relies being seen from one specific angle. I like this because the constructions catch peoples attention because they can't work out what it is. If you are traveling by, on a bus or in a car, as you move directly in front of the sculpture, it's nature becomes clear and you feel satisfied knowing what it is. From the very early traditional "4", made from coloured building blocks, the adverts have evolved and become more and more advanced. They have created a never-ending method of producing their logo.
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